School.. ahem

I am back to school.

Before I write about my first two days at school let me speak something about my travel experience. It was good, it was bad and in the end it was a mixed. I started from my home on Saturday morning 8 a.m. India time and reached Lancaster on Sunday 9 p.m. UK time. I spent 10 hours in the train while I reached Delhi (I was scheduled to spend only 8 but the train was delayed by 2 hours and my palpitation increased every minute until I deboarded and reached the airport), another 10 at Helsinki airport and all put togather I was in air and on land for more than 37 hours. Phew.. what a journey.

The arrival was good but reaching so late meant that I missed the Sunday's party that was planned for future classmates and I had to rely on the free food (comprising of boiled meshed vegetable that tasted awful and a small piece of bread) and the beer that I bought. I met one of my future classmate from Nigeria who also landed the same day and relied on the same food but I really had a very good conversation to set the tone for rest of the year. I ended up spending 2.5 hours late that evening with him and I enjoyed every bit of it.

Now the school.

It is impressive. Had to hunt a little before I got to meet many of the students. Facilities seem impressive. The director of the program and the staff seem friendly. Moreover the fellow classmates are interesting with backgrounds as diverse as Marine Engineering to Finance to Manufacturing to IT. The nationalities are 22 in number.

I am impressed by the program conducted so far and the interesting discussion on credit crunch situation in the world economy by Prof. Balasubramaniam provided an interesting insight into the problem and the role India and China are playing in it. Overall, till now it has seemed that the year will be exciting and at the same it will be stressful.

Stay tuned for more information. Will post as soon as I get my laptop from the university on Thursday.

Fatherhood and MBA

September 16, 2008, I am blessed with my second child, a baby boy.

It has been a hectic fortnight after my departure from Bangalore. I visited quite a few relatives, spend days without Internet connection apart from spending some quality time with the family. Days of planning went in for the D-day and when the day arrived lot of anxiety prevailed before the nurse broke the news. I was hoping since very long time that before I depart to Lancaster, I should be able to spend some moments with the new one. I thank God for listening my prayers and granting me my wish.

Right now I am very busy and I have not yet started planning for the departure (a basic preparation was done long ago). Right now trips between the hospital and home and also managing my elder one are sapping up all my energy. I was planning to read through the pre-reading material before starting for the class but never found some free time (classical excuse), now I think I will read in the room at the Graduate College in the University before the classes actually begin.

In the meantime lot of activity is going on among future classmates and all seem to be worried about the placements. I am also worried but haven't really thought about it yet. I am impressed by the ideas floating around and would like to contribute actively to make placements a success at Lancaster. This will happen only when I reach there and till then I wish to enjoy some blissfull moments with my kids.